On 2019-02-25 13:01, Dirk Munk wrote:
For many people the browser is their primary application, so making it run as smoothly as possible is quite a logical pursuit.
Frankly, if a user's concern is having a browser that runs as smoothly as possible, SeaMonkey is not the right browser. Despite spawning dozens of threads, it is quite poor at making use of multiple cores; I generally find that it won't use much more than one core's worth of CPU power (e.g. on a four-core system, the SeaMonkey process won't go much above 25% utilization), and so all it takes is one tab that's consuming CPU cycles to make the whole thing almost unresponsive. (And yes, that's with a memory cache that I had increased from the default long ago.) Firefox and Chrome both run rings around it in this department.
That's one of the two main reasons I've largely (and reluctantly) abandoned SeaMonkey, the other being its archaic extension support that means none of the extensions I rely on have been updated in about a year and a half (and never will be).
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